Chapter 32 Section IX

The next day is a shower day in Zone B.As with meals, go to the showers in file by floor.However, the number of people came more than when they were dining, and it seemed that people from all three floors were inside. When I arrived at the shower room, I saw that it was quite spacious, with a corridor surrounded by barbed wire above the head, and the prison guards with guns walked back and forth to inspect downwards.When Barnard entered, there was only one prison guard walking slowly in the corridor on the second floor.Barnard stripped naked and walked towards the shower, marveling at the laxness of his guard.

The water in the shower was lukewarm, not to mention the right temperature, but it was much better than cold water.He wets himself first, lathers up and down carefully with soap, and washes it off with water.At this moment, he suddenly felt a hand caressing his back, and his heart skipped a beat. He turned around reflexively, and saw a big man standing in front of him, who turned out to be Tang.Only then did he realize that Tang was also from District B.Because during the meal, the two never met face to face. "Barney, let me give you a hand." Tang, with wet hair sticking to his forehead, said coquettishly, with a weird smile on his face.The black hair on his shoulders and chest was also wet, like a strange monster.

"May I help you flush your body, or rub your back?" "Don't bother you." In order not to irritate the other party, Barnard said politely, "I like to wash alone." "Look at what you said..." As he said, Tang pressed his naked body tightly against Barnard's shoulders with his wet hands.The hot water from the nozzle washed over the bodies of the two people. "Look, the guard is still watching," Barnard said desperately. "Don't worry, that kid is my buddy." Hearing this, Barnard's heart tightened again. "He'll just think we're joking around."

"But..." Before Barnard could finish speaking, Tang's voice suddenly lowered, and his gaze became ferocious. "Hey, don't try to fight against me..." Then, a thick fist was placed against Barnard's chin, and he pushed hard.The wet black hair on the backs of the fingers met Barnard's eyes. "As a person, I have to get what I want. The more easily I can't get it, the more exciting I feel. You should think about how not to suffer from flesh and blood..." Due to the sound of the surrounding water, it may be difficult for such blatant threats to reach the ears of people nearby.

"Tang!" A voice came, and Tang let go.Barnard sighed inwardly. "It's still empty here." The man pointed to the sprinkler head two places away, "The guards can keep an eye on it." Looking up, I saw that the prison guard was sticking his face on the wire fence and looking down. "Tang, you'd better bear with it for now," the man said. Tang Mo walked over there slowly.The man who had pushed Don away turned around and it was Harry.He is coming this way. "It was really hanging just now." He said as he walked over. "Barney..." He called Barnard's name, staring at Barnard's face sincerely.Then, putting his face close to Barnard's ear, he said softly:

"We'll have you covered. Me, and Ruby." Barnard nodded obediently. "Huh? Barney, would you like this?" Harry turned his face away, raised his voice a little, and said something ambiguous.The characteristic of this person is that he likes to play tricks.Barnard nodded again. "If you continue like this, you will be in danger. In this place, you will definitely be unlucky, and you will be called around for the rest of your life. You can't hide. That guy has many subordinates, and they are all ruthless. You Will be played to death by them." Feeling a chill run down his spine, Barnard turned off the shower.

"Well, Barney, would you like me to help you?" Harry said, staring at him. "Help me," Barnard blurted out.His knees were shaking with anger. "Well then, we'll help you. And you'll help us. It's not a big deal, is it?" Harry leaned his body closer again and whispered in his ear.Barnard didn't think much of it, and nodded vigorously. "Well, let's make a deal, huh? You don't back down. If you betray us, Ruby and I will put you on the ground and let Don do what he wants. Looking for a guard with less The place is not easy, and the laundry room is one. You have to remember it.”

Barnard was a little dazed, but nodded again and again. "Okay, I'll see you at the wind break." After saying that, Harry walked away. The flute sounded, and someone shouted: "Everyone come out!" Barnard almost trotted towards the locker room. During the wind-off time in the afternoon, as soon as Barnard pretended to be nonchalant and stood in the corner of the playground, Harry and Ruby immediately joined him. These two are quite special.The other prisoners were all smiling when they met each other, even that Tang was no exception.But these two people were the only ones who always looked nervous and frightened, and they had never seen a smile on their faces.Even when gagging, their facial expressions are rigid.

"Brother, let's go to the stone steps." Saying that, Harry pointed to the concrete stone steps where the black people gathered.Ever since he listened to Nicky's warning, Barnard tried to avoid going near the area known as "Negro Land". "The bottom step of the stone steps is a blind spot that the guards missed. Only half of the guards can see it." After speaking, Harry moved his legs.Then he turned around and said, "You think I've done my homework well? Needless to say, I've been in this damn place for ten years. Humph, I've had enough. I know better than that Help the guards and be clear. Are you asking those black guys? Don't worry about them, we are here."

Harry was right. The three of them slowly approached the stone steps until they reached the bottom step. The black people just watched them coldly without saying a word. "I'm Ruby, buddy, and you're Barney," Ruby said gruffly, holding out his big hand.Barnard nodded wordlessly and shook the hand. "It's dangerous for you to stay here any longer. Don's sure to fuck you, or you'll die if you don't. This tough guy has his eyes on you," said Harry. "What should I do..." Barnard asked feebly. "You've got to get out of here, sooner rather than later. The longer you stay, the greater the danger. It's not just a Don, didn't you hear, it won't be long before new bombs turn San Francisco into Into a sea of ​​fire."

Harry pointed to downtown San Francisco, looming through the barbed wire. "In the blink of an eye, we will be alive and turned into smoke, just like ants or cockroaches, not even a scum is left. Knowing that once we die, a fool will spend it here." After speaking, Harry looked at Barnard beside him. "Even if you can escape Don's clutches, you can't escape the Nazi's super weapon. I heard that the bomb is terrible. A matchbox-sized bomb can blow up New York. But the one thrown at us is said to have The tuna is so big, San Francisco will disappear, I’m afraid there will be no trace left. The entire West Coast is not safe, and Los Angeles is also doomed. If you want to survive, you have to flee to the East Coast.” "But we're locked up in a prison like this, on an island, like a caged bird. There's nothing, nothing we can do." "It's easy, just leave." Harry stared fixedly at Barnard's face, and said lightly.Barnard was taken aback for a moment when he heard this, but gradually, he understood the meaning of these words, and couldn't help feeling horrified. "what are you saying?" So, Harry leaned closer to Barnard's face: "Listen, Barney, you have no turning back when you have talked to this point. You can only go on, don't be half-hearted. That Don is a cold-blooded gay, If you don’t go out, you will die in his hands sooner or later. Even if you are not killed by him, you will only be his plaything for the rest of your life. If you want to have a chance of survival, you must make up your mind and escape from here.” Barnard was speechless in a daze. "Don't underestimate that pervert, he can do anything. Before breakfast, he can chop up that thing of yours. You have no choice but to go out. " "But how do I get out...I just came in, so I can't do it." Barnard said. "It can be done." Hearing what Harry said, Barnard became a little anxious: "I am physically weak, and I have never been able to do anything out of line. I can neither fight nor shoot." "That's not necessary. All you need is your height." "height?" "That's right." "It turns out that you two are planning to escape from prison?" "Yeah, do you understand now?" Barnard stared in Harry's face for a moment, then said, "That's your business. I'll keep it to myself. You two just run away, please don't involve me, I'll just get in the way." "I said, when we're gone, aren't you afraid of Tang?" "This, this is really a headache, but I can't do something like jailbreak, no." "I didn't let you go to heaven or earth, the tunnel is ready-made." Ruby muttered.This is definitely bluffing.If there was such a tunnel, everyone would have run away long ago. "Why did you pull me? I can't do it. Didn't that Alan Ripley who just died just wanted to run?" "It's all caused by this Ripley, otherwise we wouldn't be so blind. If you want to hate you, hate Ripley. You must help me with this." Barnard was puzzled by Harry's words: "Involved by Ripley?" "yes." "Why? Besides, it's impossible to have any authentic ones, right? If there were, everyone would have already run away." "It's true, it's true." Harry asserted confidently. "This authentic, no one knows?" "no one knows." "That's ridiculous. Where is it? A tunnel into the Warp?" "What it is?" "The other world that Dominique talked about, he said that this island also has a subspace. The whole island is an impregnable fortress, and it is impossible to escape from here without using this subspace. The structure of the island is solid rock, surrounded by It's icy water, nearly two miles from San Francisco on the other side. How on earth are you trying to get out?" "Are you a landlubber?" "That's not true, but it's not a good swim either." "It's not scary. Look here..." Harry patted the bottom half of the concrete steps under his butt from between his legs, "When you go back to the room, look under the sink near the base of the wall. Remember to squat down to watch. But you have to watch carefully, and wait until the patrol is far away before you look.” "What are you doing there?" "There's a ventilation hole there. It's this big, boxy, and covered with a wire mesh." "Ah, I remembered." Barnard finished speaking, showing a confused expression. "Don't pour water on it, that thing is a fake, it will break if it touches water. You can tell if you put your face close to it, it's made of paper." "What did you say?" "I cut out the coloring pages from magazines, put them in water mixed with glue, kneaded them into pulp, and compacted them to make a fake thing like this. It was glued to the wall, and I held it with both hands. Just pull it forward and it comes off. When it comes off you can see a hole that's just about the width of a man's shoulders." Barnard was taken aback when he heard that: "My God! How do you know?" "I made that thing, it took me a year..." Harry said smugly. "A year's work?..." "Yeah, all year. I dug this hole in the wall bit by bit with a spoon I stole from the cafeteria until I could get myself in. Then I used paper pulp and mud The fake wall covering was made to cover the hole, and the removed iron net was buried inside, and finally this fake thing was pasted on the wall for camouflage. At first glance, it is impossible to detect.” Barnard's mind was in a mess, and it took a while before he said, "But, how come there is this in my room..." "Because your room was originally mine. This single room has been mine for many years. Later, Ripley's prison escape happened, and the warden sounded the alarm, and he ordered to change the room. When I heard it, I almost Just passed out..." Harry clicked his tongue: "Me, Ruby, and Rick, the three of us worked hard, and it took almost a whole year to dig out the walls around the ventilation hole and use pulp and mud to make a false wall." and fake ventilation holes, and changed the waterproof material of the raincoat into a life buoy, and planned to swim across the sea in it. This is not over yet, when someone gets into the wall, there will be no one in the house, we have to advance Get a dummy so the guards think we're sleeping." Ruby on the side kept nodding his head: "Of course, just a head is enough. Anyway, the body will be covered with a blanket. We made a dummy head out of pulp and put it on the bedside for preparation. We painted the head skin color, as well as handfuls of hair stolen from the barbershop, which were glued onto it one by one. After so much effort, we finally got almost all the preparations ready, and it seemed like we were going to be done. But But at this time, Ai Lun, a bastard, wanted to escape from prison and messed it up. Regardless of whether there is a chance of winning by force, this idiot, he doesn't use his brain! This is good, let's change houses collectively , but it made us miserable..." "So your room was assigned to me, the newcomer." "Yeah, that's right. Luckily, I got Ruby's room, and Ruby got Rick's. So it doesn't matter to the two of us, the secret passage is still there anyway. "But Rick was out of luck. There was no secret passage in the room assigned to him. He was so frantic that he insisted on digging a hole in the wall himself, begging me to wait for him. Isn't this a joke, we How can it be possible to wait another year. Besides, the spoon used to dig the wall has long been thrown away. Who can tell what changes will happen in a year, if it catches up with the house change again, it will definitely not happen this time Good luck." Barnard finally got it.That's the case, no wonder there was that bloody scene in the woodworking workshop.After a year of careful preparation, only Rick was left behind, so it's no wonder he didn't collapse. "If the room is given to someone else, the hole in it will be discovered sooner or later. We'll all have to go to the dungeon, and the escape will be ruined." Barnard nodded.This makes sense. "Also, Barney, if you want to escape, there is one last hurdle to pass." "What?" asked Barnard, sighing.He feels that he has been involved in a big trouble for no reason, and he is really wronged. "You are on the third floor of Building B, and Ruby is also on the third floor, and his room is right behind yours, which means you two have rooms back to back. I'm on the second floor of Building B, but that's not a problem. Climbing up to the third floor is a breeze. "After you get out of the ventilation hole, cover the hole with something fake made of pulp and mud, and then walk along the cracks in the wall until you get to the middle of the building, where you'll see something on the wall. Ladder, you can climb up the ladder to the roof of Building B. When you reach the roof, it is flat ground. I will also climb there from the second floor along the ventilation duct, it is not difficult. The three of us will meet there. " "The roof of Building B..." "Yeah, but it's not really outside at this moment. There's a concrete ceiling on top. This space is specially reserved for ventilation. By the way, you have to lower your waist. Although the light there is not good, But if the guards in the corridor on the third floor look up on a whim, they can still see you." Barnard nodded. "There is also a life buoy made from a raincoat. Everything is ready, except for this last difficulty. There is a vent in the ceiling facing the middle of the roof, which is covered with a grate. We must go through there. Go up. As long as you get to the top, you're done. There is a ventilation pipe, and we can climb from the ventilation tower to the roof of the prison building along the ventilation pipe. As long as we go to the roof, we can drain the rain along the way The pipe goes down to the ground. The rain pipe is made of thick iron, which is very strong, so don’t worry about it.” "A vent in the ceiling, covered with a grate..." "The air vent is very high, that's the problem. We need a ladder, but we don't have any. What to do, we put our arms together, you stand on it, we push it up hard, and you grab it Iron grate. "Understood? With your height, it is not difficult to reach up. Then, we have been supporting your heels and handed you a stick. You insert the stick into the grid hole of the iron grate, and push the stick hard. Pry the gap until you can get through it yourself. This is not a heavy work. This iron grate is no worse than a prison cell. It is very thin and rusty. Because no one would have thought that a prisoner would come to this place Come. "When the gap in the iron grate is big enough for you to go through, we will push you up. You have to go through the iron grate and climb into the ventilation pipe. When you reach the top of the iron grate, put your two arms Stick out the crack and wait. I'll let Ruby put his arms around and push me up hard, and when I grab your arm, you and Ruby will work together to get me up. "Then I poke my upper body upside down through the grille and try to pull Ruby up. You're going to hold my legs at this point. Ruby jumps up first, grabs my hand, and waits for me to After pulling him up, he grabbed the iron cover again, and then we both pulled him up together and dragged him into the ventilation pipe. "Well, do you understand? This is our plan. One person is definitely not enough, two people are enough, and three people are needed anyway, and one of them should be tall. Do you understand now?" Barnard finally had a full understanding of Harry's strategy. "That's why you have to be cleared up. We have to get you in. You've already made a hole in the wall in your room, and it's unjustifiable to waste it. That's what we've sweated for a year." Barnard nodded slowly as he listened to Harry's ramblings. "Speaking of which, this may be exactly what we wished for. It was a blessing in disguise. Rick is not tall enough, and as you can see, neither of us is tall. So, how to get rid of that iron grate on the ceiling , We have never had any good recruits. Thanks to the house change, we had to bring in new people, but instead gathered the ideal candidates. Although this is a bit unsatisfactory for Rick." Harry said. "Okay, you've made up your mind. If you don't escape from here, you will die at the hands of Don. When it's my turn or the next shower day, I'll put it in the locker room. The dummy head made of pulp and mud is handed over to you. It’s not okay to give it to you intact, and you can’t take it back. Just restore it in the room. The glue will also be given to you, and I will teach you how to make paper mud." Hearing this, Barnard felt a little nervous, so he didn't say a word.But Harry continued to himself: "Do you think it's impossible to escape from that single cell? Let me tell you, we've all been in and out several times. Don't look at the roll call twelve times a day, But it was all during the daytime, and there would be no roll call during the period from lights out to dawn. We could only take advantage of this time to get out through the ventilation hole. "Also, when you act at night, don't forget to put the dummy's head on the bed. You have to roll up the clothes in advance, make it look like a human body, and then cover it with a blanket. It's not difficult, right? Anyway, turn off the lights The back is so dark that no one can tell. Nicky next door, I'll go say hello to him, don't worry."